Quotes About Insight

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

A man can't retire his experience.

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience.

Teach you? I cannot teach you. Go; experience for yourself

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

My experience is the opposite.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

All genuine education comes about through experience.

You can only possess what you experience. Truth to be understood must be lived.